Word: drawled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than anything else, 5) the appearance of an exciting generation of durable (and now middleaged) champion golfers. Of the great stars, no one has done as much to bring about the revival of the game as Samuel Jackson Snead, a brawny, balding Virginian of 42, with the drawl of a mountaineer and perhaps the most graceful, powerful swing ever seen on a course...
...took notes, pausing from time to time to give ear to the excited whispers of his committee counsel, Roy Cohn, who is also accused by the Army of seeking.favors for Private Schine. Counsel Jenkins leaned close to the microphone, the corners of his cavernous mouth turned down, his Tennessee drawl booming throughout the room. He worked entirely without notes...
...Howard Jenkins, 57, the Mundt committee's chief counsel, is known around Knoxville as the "terror of Tellico." after his home town of Tellico Plains, Tenn. Last week, when Jenkins started questioning witnesses with a deep, roaring Tennessee drawl and fixing them with a tiger-like stare, they might have felt just a bit terrified. Jenkins has a simple definition of the problem he was hired to untangle: "Apparently everybody can't be telling the truth...
Last week Congressmen heard a drawl out of the past. Texas' Representative Martin Dies, first chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, was back on a well-worn trail. Dies, who returned to the House in 1952 after an absence of seven years, introduced a bill making it a crime to belong to the Communist Party in the U.S. Maximum penalty: ten years in prison and $10,000 fine. Although five similar bills are already resting in committee pigeonholes, Dies was hopeful. Cried he: "It will once and for all end this issue...
...learned, virtually no race incidents at posts. Swimming pools, athletics, post exchanges, movies-and work-are shared (although Negroes are generally "discouraged" from attending white dances). At Camp Lejeune, N.C., Nichols saw a white Marine waiter approach a billiards-playing Negro sergeant and ask, in a respectful Southern drawl: "May I get you something, sir?" A Negro chaplain offhandedly told Nichols: "I'm just another chaplain; fellows come to see me regardless of race." A Negro Air Force psychiatrist said he had successfully treated several difficult mental cases involving the wives of white officers...